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Q&A: The curious storyteller

Filmmaker Deepa Mehta talks literature and contemporary films.

Q. What excites you about this year's long-list in the JCB PRIZE for Literature?

We [the jury] read more than 61 books or, as someone counted, 150,000 pages. Some

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